Today, I was awakened, in the middle of the night, by the sound of crying coming from outside. There's a mile in between houses where I live. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I saw my upstairs neighbor outside getting the mail. She asked how my day was, and then apologized that the sound of her baby's crying through the walls kept me up last night. Apparently she heard me when I yelled at 2am for her fucking demon spawn to shut up. FML
Today, there was a knock on my apartment door. It was the man from next-door, who sarcastically asked if I was alright, because he said he heard me screaming in agony. I was singing. FML
Today, I was trying to fall asleep. Unfortunately, my next-door neighbor's baby began to cry. I closed the window and rolled over, unable to hear the crying anymore. My dog's hearing is better than mine, and so he started barking. Goodbye, good night's sleep. FML
Today, I was woken at 4 a.m. by the sounds of someone crashing down the stairs. I scrambled out, still half-asleep, to find out that nobody was in an agonized heap at the bottom. The walls are so thin in my house that I could hear the neighbour falling down HIS stairs. FML
Today, at 2:30am, I heard my baby crying on the monitor. As I got out of bed, she stopped crying and started laughing. There's nobody else in the house. FML
Today, I found out that the peaceful rain I'd been listening to all night was really a broken water-main flooding my entire yard. FML
Today, I was woken up at 6am to the sound of my mother on the back deck of the house hooting like an owl. FML
Today, I was awoken by my neighbor pounding on my back door at 3 am, only to look outside and see my car engulfed in flames. FML
Today, I was over at my boyfriend's house and I heard a strange sound. I laughed and said, "It sounds like a dog throwing up!" He listened for a second and said, "That's my mom crying downstairs." FML
Today, I heard a scream that sounded suspiciously like my cat when he's just had a nightmare or is otherwise in a state of extreme distress. I found him chilling on my couch, so I walked back to my room, when I heard the scream again. I ran back and he was still chilling. It was my neighbor's son screaming outside. FML
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mcicycool 0
that's just creepy.. I say gtfo of there
MoonyIce 0
It was likely just some animals having sex. When they're mating, a lot of animals - foxes especially - can sound rather horrifyingly like a human in distress.
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Comments (183)
LadyEmi 15
Hmm could be cats fighting. Cats sound like that sometimes. It's scary.
Lintu_26 23
Yeah but if this was the first time that OP had heard such crying noises...then...ya kno'...might've been something a little more than wild animals :S ugh, that's when I'd be in a blanket in the corner, holding some sort of weapon while rocking back and forth waiting for daylight!
klc20071989_fml 20
Around my parts, its usually bobcats.
Laynee_99 1
Wow, it was probably a homeless person, I highly doubt that it was a ghost. But if it was, sucks for you.
jackzana 13
Mountain lions make noises like a human baby crying or a woman screaming. I've heard both and it was utterly terrifying
greencurtains74 11
baby crying? its probably a mountain lion.
FabCee 18
spooooky
supercurlyq 5
I think that it's nothing to worry about. Sure, it may be creepy, especially if your home by yourself, but it was probably just an animal outside.
randomgirl1234 20
I would be hella creeped out. Go and hide under your blankets and pretend you're not there.
ArybellaHope 8
I used to live on an acreage and this actually happened to me. It was the voice of a young girl sobbing directly outside of my second story window. There used to be a tree there. But it was cut down years before this happened.